*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason – at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, one of the most ingenious plotters in the field, with stunning twists and reveals. Nowhere more so than the 30 novels he wrote of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, the most untypical pair of detectives, written under the pen name of A A Fair. We have four such mysteries, published in the contemporary Hard Case Crime imprint, which brings you the best in hardboiled crime fiction, ranging from lost noir masterpieces to new novels by today’s most powerful writers, featuring stunning original cover art in the grand pulp style. Cover art on these by Robert McGinnis and Laurel Blechman. The Knife Slipped is the ‘lost’ Cool and Lam novel, not published until the Hard Case Crime edition in 2016. More information in our catalogue. 
PICTURED: BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER (writing as A A FAIR)
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